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Appropriating Bombay cinema: why the Western world gets Bollywood so wrong.(FOCUS ON Asia)
I can't keep it inside of me any more! All this preaching by the Western media about what I should appreciate from my own popular culture. One Bride and Prejudice (Gurinder Chadha, 2004) comes along aimed at ignorant white audiences, and they lap it up because everything Indian is the flavour of the season.
Dahling Bollywood is so much fun! Love those songs and dances! Your weddings are so musical! India is so exotic! A few academic scholars apart, there was a time when film analysts, the Western media and the Western world in general rejected Bombay cinema as trite. Not because it actually was, but because they could not comprehend it. Over-the-top melodrama, ...
- Obituary: Manmohan Desai
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London KULDIP SINGH March 4, 1994 700+ words
Manmohan Desai, film director and producer: born Bombay 26 February 1937; married...Jeevanprabha Gandhi (one son, two daughters); died Bombay 1 March 1994. MANMOHAN DESAI, one of India's most successful film directors and producers...
- "Taking on the tone of a Bombay talkie": the function of Bombay cinema in...
- Magazine article from: ARIEL Chordiya, Deepa P. October 1, 2007 700+ words
...recently, however, the conventions of Bombay cinema were largely ridiculed, satirized...Salman Rushdie's observations about Bombay cinema reinforce this view: [m]ost Hindi...dismissive view of Bollywood movies, Bombay cinema nevertheless figures prominently in...
- Bombay cinema; an archive of the city.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News November 1, 2007 700+ words
9780816649426 Bombay cinema; an archive of the city. Mazumdar, Ranjani. U. of Minnesota Press 2007 257 pages $22.50 Paperback PN1993 Mazumdar (cinema...
- David Dhawan fears competition from his son.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. July 17, 2009 700+ words
...up direction after watching films of Manmohan Desai, Ritwik Ghatak and Hrishikesh Mukherjee...kind of films Desai had directed. Manmohan Desai was my guru when I was a film student...was shooting at Mehboob studios when Manmohan Desai himself came to me and asked me to...
- Gandhi assailant called `lone wolf'
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times October 3, 1986 700+ words
...Chief government spokesman Ramamohan Rao identified the suspect as a man in his mid-20s who at first gave his name as Manmohan Desai but then changed it several times. Witnesses said five bullets were fired in Gandhi's direction yesterday as he left...
- Sikhs open fire on Punjab police chief; 1 dead, 6 hurt
- Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times October 4, 1986 700+ words
...yesterday identified the man as Karamjit Singh, 26, of an undisclosed village in Punjab. He first gave his name Thursday as Manmohan Desai, but then gave different names several times during questioning. Police were questioning Singh in an effort to establish...
- Ambika Soni condoles demise of Marathi actor Neelu Phule
- News wire article from: The Hindustan Times July 13, 2009 700+ words
...Babasaheb Fatehlal) among others. His major Hindi films include 'Saaransh' (dir: Mahesh Bhatt), 'Coolie' (dir : Manmohan Desai) and 'Mashal' (dir: Yash Chopra). Phule was the only actor to win best actor's award by the Maharashtra Government...
- Popular Kannada film director of yesteryears Somashekhar dies.
- News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. August 22, 2003 700+ words
...Kalinga" and "Chandi Chamundi" featuring other stars. Somashekhar, who also produced some films, was known as "Manmohan Desai" of Kannada film world, as most of the films directed by him made money at the box-office. (THROUGH ASIA PULSE)